Tag: anti-gay law

This is huge news and could lead to the decriminalization of homosexuality in India India’s Supreme Court will reexamine whether a section of the country’s Penal Code that outlaws homosexuality is constitutionally valid. Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code bans ‘carnal intercourse against the order of nature’, which includes same-sex relations. The law is hangover from British colonial rule, who introduced the law while India was still under British control. But on Monday afternoon (8 January), a three-judge bench of the...

Researchers have found that crimes against the LGBT community have doubled since the introduction of an “anti-gay propaganda” law in Russia. The law, which came into action five years ago, has seen a sharp spike in violent attacks across the country, reports Reuters. 200 out of the 250 crimes studied are acts of murder, according to the Centre for Independent Social Research. The number of sentences for offences against LGBT people may have increased to 65 in 2015 from 18 in 2010,...

Hong Kong is getting ever closer to gaining more rights for LGBTQ people thanks to a gay man who’s challenging anti-gay laws in the region. In Hong Kong law, specifically in the Crimes Ordinance section, there are rules about homosexual buggery, gross indecency by man and the conduct of procuring young person to resort to, or be on premise or vessel, for intercourse, prostitution, buggery or homosexual act. Yeung Chu-wing, a 24-year-old volunteer for the LGBTQ rights group Rainbow Action, is...

Lately, North Carolina was the center of attention, in a negative way, due to the anti-LGBT laws that the state has passed. Many celebrities bullied the state of Carolina by either canceling their shows there, or just speaking against the inhuman laws. Next to participate at the protest is Survivor contestant, Neil Gottlieb. What he did is very imaginative. Gottlieb placed a rainbow house on the state's tallest mountain. He also wrote a letter to NC Governor Pat McCrory attaching the photos with...

'I Stand in Solidarity With All My LGBT Friends to Repeal This Extremely Discriminatory Bill' Canadian rock singer and song-writer Bryan Adams has just canceled his concert in Mississippi scheduled for April 14 at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi. He made his decision over the US state's new Anti-Gay 'Religious Freedom' Law that was passed one week ago. According to this law it allows religious groups and some private businesses to refuse service to gay couples. "I find it incomprehensible that LGBT citizens are being...